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Ärende: "Happy is the man that feareth alway" (Proverbs 28:14).
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

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      Fear Has Its Place
      Robert Prodoehl
      Sep 8, 2005


September 9

Fear Has Its Place

"Happy is the man that feareth alway" (Proverbs 28:14).

The fear of the LORD is the beginning and the foundation of all true religion.
Without a solemn awe and reverence of God there is no foothold for the more
brilliant virtues. He whose soul does not worship will never live in holiness.

He is happy who feels a jealous fear of doing wrong. Holy fear looks not only
before it leaps, but even before it moves. It is afraid of error, afraid of
neglecting duty, afraid of committing sin. It fears ill company, loose talk,
and questionable policy. This does not make a man wretched, but it brings him
happiness. The watchful sentinel is happier than the soldier who sleeps at his
post. He who foreseeth evil and escapes it is happier than he who walks
carelessly on and is destroyed.

Fear of God is a quiet grace which leads a man along a choice road, of which it
is written, "No lion shall be there, neither shall any ravenous beast go up
thereon." Fear of the very appearance of evil is a purifying principle, which
enables a man, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to keep his garments
unspotted from the world. Solomon had tried both worldliness and holy fear: in
the one he found vanity, in the other happiness. Let us not repeat his trial
but abide by his verdict.

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712 L.M. J. HART
Christ in the Garden. Matt. 26. 36-46

1 Come hither, ye that fain would know The exceeding sinfulness of sin;
Come see a scene of matchless woe,
And tell me what it all can mean.

2 Behold the darling Son of God
Bowed down with horror to the ground, Wrung at the heart, and sweating blood,
His eyes in tears of sorrow drowned!

3 See how the Victim panting lies,
His soul with bitter anguish pressed; He sighs, he faints, he groans, he cries,
Dismayed, dejected, shocked, distressed.

4 What pangs are these that tear his heart? What burden's this that's on him
laid? What means this agony of smart?
What makes our Maker hang his head?

5 'Tis Justice, with its iron rod,
Inflicting strokes of wrath divine;
'Tis the avenging hand of God,
Incensed at all your sins and mine.

6 Deep in his breast our names were cut; He undertook our desperate debt;
Such loads of guilt were on him put, He could but just sustain the weight.

7 Then let us not ourselves deceive; For, while of sin we lightly deem,
Whatever notions we may have,
Indeed we are not much like him.

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